Get your Rapture hats ready, kiddies! The sky is falling, and our wise gift of nuclear winter will propel us all into the loving arms of the all-knowing and all-everywhere G-d.

2007-10-23

"But you're going to spend it to blow up innocent people if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown off for the President's amusement." Pete Stark (D-CA)

“I apologize for this reason: I think we have serious issues before us, the issue of providing medical care to children, the issue about what we’re going to do about a war that we’re divided about how to end."

2007-10-16: Stark Opening Remarks At A Hearing On Medicare Advantage Audits" [1] The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, [2] CMS’ own Actuary and the [3] Congressional Budget Office each estimate that Medicare Advantage Plans are overpaid. MEDPAC estimates the average overpayment is 112% of Medicare’s costs with plans in some areas exceeding 150% of Medicare’s rates. It’s no secret that many of us find this wrong – as do many of America’s taxpayers."